{"id":1366,"date":"2019-02-25T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T07:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2019-03-07T20:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:20:23","slug":"a-major-step-towards-making-docker-a-distributed-application-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/a-major-step-towards-making-docker-a-distributed-application-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"A Major Step Towards Making Docker a Distributed Application Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.rancher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04131553\/socketplane.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.rancher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04131553\/socketplane-300x300.png\" alt=\"socketplane\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today Docker acquired SDN software maker SocketPlane. Congratulations to both<br \/>\nDocker and SocketPlane teams. We have worked closely with SocketPlane<br \/>\nteam since the early Docker <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/docker\/docker\/issues\/8951\">networking<br \/>\ndiscussions<\/a> and have a<br \/>\ngreat amount of respect for their technical abilities. We are also happy<br \/>\nto see Docker Inc. make a serious effort to bring SDN capabilities to<br \/>\nthe Docker platform. Many customers have told us that the lack of<br \/>\nmulti-host networking is one of the last remaining gaps that impede the<br \/>\nwide-spread production use of Docker containers. Today Docker containers<br \/>\non multiple hosts cannot easily communicate with each other. Without<br \/>\nSDN, developers and operations teams have to resort to complicated port<br \/>\nmapping to get containers that are running on different hosts to talk to<br \/>\neach other. This dramatically complicates application deployment,<br \/>\nmonitoring, upgrades, and service discovery.<\/p>\n<p>At Rancher Labs, we are<br \/>\ndeveloping two products: <a href=\"http:\/\/rancher.com\/rancher-os\/\">RancherOS<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rancher.com\/rancher-io\/\">Rancher<\/a>. RancherOS is a<br \/>\nminimalist Linux distribution designed specifically for running Docker<br \/>\ncontainers. It enables the type of networking services developed by<br \/>\nSocketPlane to be packaged and distributed as system containers. Rancher<br \/>\nis a container orchestration platform for managing large production<br \/>\ndeployments of Docker containers. Rancher requires a multi-host<br \/>\nnetworking layer to be deployed underneath. In fact, the need for<br \/>\nmulti-host networking is such that we developed a simple yet functional<br \/>\nSDN solution in Rancher itself. We look forward to working with<br \/>\nSocketPlane team as they drive the Docker networking API design so that<br \/>\nRancher can work with multiple SDN implementations in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Docker ecosystem, Rancher\u2019s success depends on an<br \/>\nincreasing number of organizations embracing containers. We believe<br \/>\nDocker can only succeed if it fulfills its promise of becoming a<br \/>\ndistributed application platform. A standardized Docker networking layer<br \/>\nis an important step in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in learning more about RancherOS, please join us for an online meet up on<br \/>\nMarch 31st.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rancher.com\/a-major-step-towards-making-docker-a-distributed-application-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Docker acquired SDN software maker SocketPlane. Congratulations to both Docker and SocketPlane teams. We have worked closely with SocketPlane team since the early Docker networking discussions and have a great amount of respect for their technical abilities. We are also happy to see Docker Inc. make a serious effort to bring SDN capabilities to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/a-major-step-towards-making-docker-a-distributed-application-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Major Step Towards Making Docker a Distributed Application Platform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kubernetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw93\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}